July 3rd

4:17 Bacău, Băicoi. Lip sync, liposuction, Lysychansk.

Da, la Câmpulung aveam la un moment dat sobă cu rumeguș. Umpleam butoiul din mijloc exact ca în imagine, cu un par la mijloc care la urmă se scotea iar cu alt par se compacta rumegușul pe măsură se se umplea, dar în altă parte, unde aveam rumegușul, după care îl aduceam în casă și-l băgam în sobă (aveai nevoie de o podea solidă dedesubt în timpul compactării). Operațiunea dura jumătate de oră și era job-ul meu dacă eram acasă când trebuia umplut, care normal nu-mi plăcea fiindcă se compacta greu. Ardea încet din interior spre exterior și ținea un număr de ore în funcție de cât de bine era compactat. Nu cred că era prea eficient pentru că rumegușul este izolant. Căldura era transferată mai ales prin capacul rabatabil (din tablă subțire gen capac cutie metalică biscuiți) și burlanul din tablă care intra în coșul principal. Avea o gaură mică în capac prin care vedeai cât mai are de ars. Până se încălzea burlanul și coșul ca să apară "tirajul" adică o presiune negativă în burlan, ieșea și puțin fum în casă. Rumegușul era ieftin sau gratis fiindcă provenea de la fabrica de mobilă de vizavi unde am lucrat mai toată familia, la un moment sau altul.  Tipul acesta de sobă este foarte folosit în atelierele de tâmplărie unde se produce rumeguș tot timpul.

2:05 Last night i picked some garbage from around the building and threw it in the bin. A guy passed by and produced some sounds like hitting two big metal balls inside his pocket. Metal on metal. Suspicious since i changed oil, thought it was an allusion to something, and today when i drove the car i hear from the first time what i thought it was a low frequency rumble (the dreaded low oil pressure rumble maybe) but when i listened with a stethoscope i heard another sound that seems weird coming from lower side of the engine like a louder lifter (or maybe it's an echo of the upper). Too bad of my part that i didn't listen and recorded the sounds of this engine when i got it first. To end speculations, i lowered the phone as much as i could next to fan and recorded it and put it here, so i can compare it with what i will hear in the future. The oil looks clear, was thinking about changing it again but i will leave it for after the holiday. I checked the filter, it comes loose easily with my old tool, no need to buy a new one, got almost zero torque after the change at Jiffy Lube (they put it in by hand), but not leaking. Stripped both threads at the connectors at the battery (my modification), went to next size or 10 mm, was thinking about putting inserts so i ordered a kit on Amazon, it doesn't work on lead though. Went at Home Depot and bought some M10x1.25 nuts and bolts but needed a drill bit with hex end to enlarge the connectors, and the cheapest was like 9 bucks (3 times the price of a few years ago). Next to it was a kit with 6 bits for 11 bucks but when i went at the checkers it was 17. Missplaced i guess. Yesterday i figured a way to remove the ball joint and i'll try again after i'm done with the battery.

3:40 I don't think i mentioned today the live theater shows that occur around me for all the time i go at Home Depot or in any store or casino. Most typical, getting close to me where i was searching, at the same bay though the whole isle is empty, within one minute or waiting for me at the same bays if they know what i'm searching. One guy talking continuously but never answering the right answer or helping. Big crowd at the drawers with nuts and bolts. I said i bought some nuts and bolts. Two bolts and two nuts. M10x1.25. Bolts were in separate bags and the nuts they were both in one bag marked M10x1.25. However one of them was 1.25 and one 1.5 which is impossible because they are manufactured and packed automatically on different machines in big batches. So i finished only the negative side of the battery, running back there to get one more nut. And my screwdriver battery (which sometimes i successfully use as drilling tool) went out. I think in the older version the NiMetal batteries were lasting longer. But i lost that one inside the apartment and can't find it so i bought the one linked above.

Newest trend. Kids from apartments got plastic toy machine guns and use them all the time making sounds that remind of the real thing. Now that i want to leave they gathered behind my car.

9:11 Ok i pulled the ball joint, pinched the boot but in a different part where it had a hole in it, i tried before with that tool but could not figured how to do it (need to remove first the three nuts and bolts to control arm). Used my tool, not a wedge. The new one i had from ebay did not fit, however i was able to take the boot of that one and put it on the old which BTW did not have a damaged thread. Could not put back the ring that holds the boot, used some wire instead, i will search for the part and replace it now that i know how.

Though there are lots of people in casinos tonight, according to google maps, which means the machines are not that tight (because they make more money with more people), Angela lost some last night, it was a good opportunity to make it back but decided not to drive the car 150 more miles because of the bell like sound of the engine. Tomorrow morning will change oil, cut the filter to see if there's any piece of aluminum inside from that seal restricting the oil flow. Also would have been good to leave, they pop big (most likely illegal) fireworks at a small park 500 ft away in direct line of sight from our windows.

10:15 Had no idea Norwegian was so close to English.

10:30 Did i just say about Danish cookies boxes? Hava nagila?

Went and picked some Chinese food boxes from around the corner that were creating a big stink inside the apartment. They alwasy throw stuff we last cooked or ate like rice and chicken with teriyaki sauce. I think it's the same principle from news. They post garbage over my posts. Hope i'm gonna be able to sleep now.

Record number of teens roaming around tonight, no adults.

July 2

3:04 Câmpulung, Copou, Coposu. A song to cope with anything. Cage, son of Coppola. Etc.

2:08 When i got the car from the auction and paint shop i found. One bent drive axle (right). The other was severely rusted with a play. Two cracked struts. I replaced them all but  never touched the big ball joint nut.

I instead removed the three smaller ones at the control arm. Cause i knew the ball joint conic bolt maybe stuck in the steering knuckle. However somehow they got loose on both sides. Kept tightening them. Before i figured i needed single use nuts i bought a whole assembly (ball joint, cheap, OEM, 30 bucks) on ebay on February 17 which i tried to unnecessarily replace (being constantly under influence from smoke from mole holes which has ceased after i finally plugged all holes with added borax). I put some WD40, untigthened the nut to bolt level and hammered them together but not a lot since i had no room to do it. Tightened the nut back by hand and with a new wrench i bought especially for this. I did not strip the nut, no way. I think that 12 mm bolt can take safely up to 100 pounds. Then i bought a tool on Amazon which didn't work. When i went to Reno i stopped once on the freeway and tried to tighten the nut again but was turning continuously and i figured maybe the conic joint got loose because of the WD40 i put in. Today i went in to see what's happening and found the nut and bolt are stripped period. 

While i was weighing my options in disbelief and was ready to put it together (got the parts, but can't remove the old joint) the read head woman, the mother of veteran's daughter passed by and never came back. I figured she went to the office like she threatened once, because i was working on the car. But at the garages there's a guy who also works on a vehicle and he does it everyday like a business. Closest.

What i don't understand is why yesterday or any time before i retigthened the nut it was making a noise at the bumps and had problems steering at high speed which means the conic bolt is loose but every time i tried to remove it it was stuck. Right now since it's stuck i think i can drive it safely even without a nut on it. The nut is stripped but is very hard to remove and i don't think the bolt would pop up so i may just drive it like this for a few more days (Angela's got Monday off).

3:38 A drive to Les Schwab turned into a whole new adventure. I stopped at Jiffy Lube where they replaced my filter last time. They said they can't do it without an alignement. There is nothing to align at this car except for toe but that one wouldn't change with ball joint replacement. Nothing will change. Anyways, i know when a car is out of alignment. He gave me the "if  you want to argue, i do this for..." (he's like 30).

At Les Schwab. Blake Shelton as customer, a kid that seemed familiar came when i was leaving, but i passed.

Some other mechanic told me what to do. A wedge, but that will destroy the old part in the process. Not so absolutely sure i got the right part on ebay. Though mine is stripped, it still works and if i do this i have to be ready to give up the car for a few days in case it goes wrong.

Now that is stuck (as for today) i don't hear any noises at the bumps.

Risking children's lives. When i came back, a grey silver Audi was coming real close, threatening to hit me from behind. I was braking slowly watching him in the mirror and pulled real fast in the alley, stopped and honked, without realizing there was a car trying to leave the alley with a kid in the back sit staring at me.

July 1st

12:35 I don't know why i keep repeating the same mistake. Went again at the bottle drop center next to Fred Meyer after 8 PM. What puzzles me is it's all automatic. You scan your card, open the little door, put your green bag with the bar-code label inside etc.. So why close it at 8? So i grabbed the case of empty beer bottles and the sac with cans and put them back in the car. But as i was there staring in disbelief, a mysterious, angry, rather fat woman dressed elegant looking Hungarian came and threw something in the big garbage barrel (on the left, not seen in the picture), though she could have done it anywhere else. Then on a hunch i made a search. Two searches. Ok, three. Then i remembered the Caracal case happened during her ministry.

1:25 Mi-am amintit o fază bizară din Bacău cred că era imediat după revoluție, un an doi, oare mai lucram la cepele (capala)? am fost prin oraș și am găsit undeva butoaie mari de plastic pentru murături. Și căram eu butoiul acela, gol nu era greu și am trecut prin spatele blocului lui Nuți unde un tip m-a întrebat ceva în engleză. Și pentru că nu puteam pierde oportunitatea, am stat și am vorbit cu el vreo jumătate de oră în stradă. Îmi amintesc vag, cred că era misionar Baháʼí din Canada și avea într-adevăr figură de Iranian (mă gândesc acum). La un moment dat m-am plâns de influența rusească (era pe vremea lui Iliescu care era perceput pro-rus), el s-a plâns de influența SUA în Canada ceea ce m-a șocat puțin. Apoi îmi amintesc undeva o cameră mare cu pereți și mobilier din lemn, hotel poate, casă de cultură, nu știu, erau și alte persoane și cântam ceva la chitară pe rând cred. În afară de acorduri, știam două melodii, una spaniolă și una evreiască (habar nu aveam, era dintr-un album Deep Purple) (la care a strâmbat din nas) și un riff de rock. Dar ce am făcut cu butoiul. Oare l-am lăsat la Nuți și l-am luat mai târziu? Da, așa cred. Baháʼí, Bacău, Cabala, ABBA, Capa, Butoi.

A și tipa din AHA, fosta mea colegă de clasă, cu altă identitate, deși tot Mariana, pe care nu am recunoscut-o lucra tot la oficiu. Odată am fost la o petrecere la Nuți și a venit și ea cu tot cu tipul din video, Morten (ca prietenul ei) și au adus cu ei casetofonul AKAI din poza asta (din film). Capisci?

10:28 From my walk.

BTW the whipping post and board with insects is still there, accross the street from tennis club.

When i got back here i realized how bad it smelled like dog. For days now, in the heat of the Sun, there was this stink but could not find any source. Today attracted by other garbage, i found an empty bawl with some water and a few seeds in it, and under a bush a green bag with a poop that has been there for a while. There is no chance anybody would leave it there unintentional. You go, pick, then hide under a bush?

10:50 Lip sync, liposuction (subliminal urge).

And the real voice behind it (No, it's not Frank Farian type Euro trash, it's American Disco)


11:30 Melodia aceea era Hava Nagila

Tipii ăștia dau cam repede din mâini, mai ales la urmă. La secunda 39 Mihail spune... "mișto"?

1:00 Deci ea era tipa din parc. Carmen Tănase pentru a o acoperi pe Carmen Dan. Aceeași cabală. Apropo.

Ce bunăciuni. Toate erau. Pentru asta au fost create, crescute în Ungaria și trimise în diferite țări. Poate din material genetic furat chiar din țările respective. Hai să spunem că bunicii voștri n-au știut cine sunt, deși idolatria, adulterul chiar virtual, onania sunt păcate. Dar voi care citiți nu aveți nici o scuză, vi le-am dat pe tavă.

June 30

12:50 The reason i was not sobering up after i drank today and slept through the evening was a hole in the ground near the siding at the next apartment. Just a hole, no mound around it. Big enough for the smoke to get here, both through the siding and directly. When i finally felt the smoke, i went outside, poured some borax in it and covered it with soil from a mole mound pretty far away. While searching for the hole, soil, i smelled dog poop but could not find any. Curiously enough, today i thought of how the moles have given up since i pour borax (close to the walls, of course, there are enough further away). I briefly saw some kids, a girl, most likely Japanese, dressed summarily at the entrance of the building across when i looked the door. I looked at the bottles and when i came back i looked again. The bottles were not in the same position which means somebody has gotten inside and out while Angela is sleeping. And upstairs i heard again, after many weeks, a dog running.

1:10 A mall with 1000 people inside, 19 dead and 100 wounded? I only see a few people running around, one person on a stretcher, no cars in the parking lot, one ambulance and one guy with bandages on his head. This can't go on like this, there's got to be some sort of protection for the public from such lies that may lead to serious consequences.

9:54 S-a încheiat președenția Franței, fără nici un efort. Macron a fost foarte ocupat vorbind cu Putin la telefon. Poate intrăm în Schengen odată cu Ucraina.

10:05 Partea din față aduce într-adevăr cu Porsche iar partea din spate aduce cu Citroen DS19 sau cu Tatra 87 (cea mai avansată mașină până spre anii 60) sacrificând puțin look-ul pentru aerodinamică deci consum (Perșu, Porsche?). Hyundai a fost prima firmă care a încercat depus toate eforturile să construiască mașini ieftine cu un consum mic care să aibă formă de mașină și să nu semene cu niște bucăți de săpun rotunde pe la colțuri, ca cele japoneze de până atunci și s-a inspirat de la mărci precum Maserati și Lamborghini, aducând puțină bucurie în ochii posesorilor atunci când și le văd parcate.

1:40 Din păcate și astăzi bursa mi-a dat dreptate după ce s-au lămurit minciunile de dimineață. Dacă totul e pe un edificiu fals și se arată aceasta, ce credeți că se va întâmpla cu acel edificiu? Am plecat în plimbarea mea pentru că aici înnebuneam (fum, mucegai, zgomote) dar abia mă țineam pe picioare, pentru că am băut ieri prea mult (parcă-mi amintesc, vin, bere, coniac, vin, bere, coniac) fiindcă m-am cam săturat de toate. La colț un tip de vreo 20 de ani îmbrăcat în negru a executat niște gesturi obscene care m-au enervat atât de tare încât mi-am revenit, brusc.

Dar la sfârșit. După aproape 5 km cu gantere de 7 pounds (3.5 kg) în fiecare mână și fum în aer eram puțin obosit și visător. Am apăsat butonul (aici pietonii sunt rari) la semafor, s-a făcut verde (adică alb) la prima ocazie și am trecut (trecerea din dreapta). Din spate, adică din nord (de la Naiba), virând stânga a venit un SUV sau van alb cu număr FYD (For Your Death) pe direcție de întâlnire cum mine, călcând legea (nu trebuia să treacă dacă era pieton pe trecere). Pe trotuar o adolescentă brunețică cu coadă împletită la spate, imitație japoneză sau poate chiar americană nativă (indiancă) se uita undeva în spatele meu dar eu mai întorceam oricum capul încă o dată (mult înainte de a deveni șofer, adică timp de 35 de ani, am fost pieton) la care tipa de la volan sau AI-ul care conducea acel vehicul a virat pe banda din mijloc, pe sens invers unde din "fericirea" (de simulare AI) nu era nici o mașină, aia cu săgeată la stânga și m-a ocolit. Tipa (șoferița) zâmbea ușurată deci nu avea nici o treabă, mașina era self driven sau pe remote control.

Anni Frid? Baba Nela? Bjorn. (Baba Nela îi spunea Nuți (șefa de oficiu de la cepele) lui Nela, o operatoare, aba acum m-am prins de ce). Întrebarea e dacă era și Carmen Dan și eu cred că era, fiindcă numele Carmen sugerează muzică, iar împreună Carmen Dan aduce a Madonna (Men Dan, Ma Donna).

Vă rog să nu încercați să mă faceți să înțeleg toate chestiile astea cu asemănările, deși încerc să le pun într-o singură categorie, care se numește Cabala, cuvânt pe care când îl pomenesc îmi îngheață sângele în vine.
5:40 It's much easier to concentrate when doing face searches while laying on the couch with the laptop still in the tray. The man upstairs must be high on something and keep yelling while watching TV. Just before i tried to switch from one side to another (got tired laying on left side) a girl maybe 12 passed twice in front of the glass door, ft away. Nevermind, i'm moving the chromebook back where it was in the tray at the desk. Had to power it down and back up in the new configuration to load the drivers, and that was enough to create in my lap pain that lasted for an hour or so.

8:08 Today i found an app that shows you the cell phone towers on a map and the one you are connected to. A great idea, Beta means still in development, thus buggy. Could not find an app to simply measure the total amount of wi-fi signal in the air, the ones i found only measure one network at the time, and it's supposed to be under 100 something, and i got like 20 with an average of 50 that together make 1000, however i found my old microwave detector made of a diode and a meter, totally passive, and it shows nothing though it moves the needle when i put it next to my cell phone and make a call or next to the oven and start it, about the same.

12:00 Culeg cu stupoare "știrile" în ton cu ultimele mele postări.

June 29

9:19 Once a prince, always a prince. Da bine dar cum își beea cafeaua? A ok m-am prins. Își ridica puțin masca într-un colț. O echipă puternică, mandat din 2020. Ok m-am prins iar. COVID-ul (Corona Virus ID) a fost inventat doar pentru a-și acoperi el fața. Dacă nu era COVID-ul îl prindeau din prima.

9:58 Shania. Normal că a deraiat trenul, pe șine era iarbă. Nu vă e rușine să vedeți astfel de poze în Romania anului de grație 2022, cu 32 de ani de la Ceaușescu, 18 ani de NATO și 15 de UE la spate? Și care-i chestia cu Z-ul acela de pe locomativă?

(Read the news, trying to put together a few paragraphs, a helicopter is circling. Can't shoot video, my phone is completely discharged, just plugged it in).

10:12 La summit-ul NATO, Zelensky e superstar pe ecran mare.

10:22 Man, i feel like a woman! Simple Man. Doja Cat.
 
10:26 Naționalismul așa cum îl vedem e iluzia unora mai răsăriți care își deleagă cele mai bune speranțe intenții în mâna dracului.

2:09 Turning my chromebook into a PC with a hub (the gray stick on the floor). All tamed with a cooking tray.

2:45 Mulțumim Rusiei că a renunțat la atitudinea neproductivă de a nu prezenta punctul ei de vedere (her side of the story). Aș dori cu acest prilej să exprim opinia că Rusia ar trebui să considere renunțarea la alfabetul chirilic pentru o mai bună circulație a informațiilor și o scădere a nivelului de izolare față de restul lumii.

5:00 Eram în România și lucram într-un birou înghesuit cu mulți alții înainte de a primi "spațiu" pentru grupa SPAC (Sisteme de Proiectare Asistată de Calculator, după cum am botezat-o), într-un vestiar evacuat.

Într-un an după ce am venit din concediu de la mare, eram epuizat, iar colegii, teoretic toți copii de nomenclaturiști (directori, ingineri, etc..), care știau chestii de vacanță, mi-au zis, din simpatie: Gigi, vrei să te odihnești? Mergi în concediu la munte, nu la mare.

Mulți ani după, am găsit și explicația acelui sfat, o explicație foarte simplă (pe care sunt convins că ei nu o știau). La mare stai în nisip iar vântul ridică din nisip un praf foarte fin de siliciu (care de fapt e tot nisip dar măcinat foarte fin) pe care îl respiri. Acel praf invizibil te irită ușor și îți dă acea senzație de exictație specifică vacanțelor la mare.